Motivational Quotes

Opinions

There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains. The most universal quality is diversity.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Opinions

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Mark Twain

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

Russell, Bertrand

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Hazlitt, William

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Madonna

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.

Webster, Daniel

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Churchill, Winston

Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.

Antonius, Marcus

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Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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What you think of me is none of my business.

Cole-Whittaker, Terry

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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Maistre, Joseph De

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A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Rogers, Will

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.

Saying, Zen

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Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.

Alexander Hamilton

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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

Monica Fairview

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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Brown, Les

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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Blake, William

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Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Twain, Mark

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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

Bethania McKenstry

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An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

Pope, Alexander

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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.

George Bush

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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure.

Lebowitz, Fran

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People will in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you by that they have of your friends, as, says the

Proverb, Spanish

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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Plato

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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Hopper, Admiral Grace

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

Alger, William R.

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The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.

Rostand, Jean

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It rarely adds anything to say, In my opinion --not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.

Goodman, Paul

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Bertrand Russell

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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Brooks, Phillips

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

Mill, John Stuart

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To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Basinger, Kim

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Chuang Tzu

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I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Turgenev, Ivan

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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf